Undiscovered Country
“We need more Americans to engage with wilderness, and not just by visiting national parks, because many can’t afford to vacation there. We need people to appreciate nature where they live, so they’ll see the importance of preserving it everywhere.”
— John Elder as interviewed by Leath Tonino in the June 2013 issue of The Sun.
John Hanson Mitchell is credited with coining the phrase, "the undiscovered country of the nearby," in his book, The Wildest Place on Earth.
These pictures were made within a radius of thirty miles of my house.